Am I in my right to request a raise?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working for my current company for about 6 months now- the owner is someone I worked with on a project 2 years ago so they’ve known me for a while, it’s pretty friendly. I work on the sales team but because of my marketing experience they frequently ask me for input and ideas which i usually give. My last idea was a huge hit, it completely changed the way we sell and became a huge value add for our clients. Most of our recent sales are due to my idea, which I solely built and fleshed out.

Because I’m the only person who fully understands what I’ve created, I’ve been responsible for creating the SOP and fulfilling this offer, on top of the sales work I already do. I have one person helping me but she’s not involved in the way that I am. We just started fulfilling last week and the demand is high. I’m overwhelmed and they’ve told me they will get me a VA and want to make it easier on me.

I want to request additional pay for all of the hours I’m putting in to this that I was never contracted to do, but I know this is a smaller company and we were slow in sales until this new offer I created. What really makes me hesitant is the last couple of months my sales were lower than usual, so I wonder if I request a raise or commission if that’s going to be used against me.

I just feel a bit taken advantage of in all honesty. A few months ago when I created this offer I did bring up adding a commission if I need to fulfill the orders but it was cast aside because they didn’t know if it would take off at all.

Now I don’t know how to best start the conversation. Can anyone advise? Much appreciated.